Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > We probably need to add PG_BINARY when we open control files
> > because 0x1A is an end-of-file marker on Windows.
>
> Well, why is that a bug? If the platform is so silly as to define text
> files that way, who are we to argue?
Google says it is for for backward compatibility with CP/M
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-file
and adding O_BINARY is the answer.
http://codenewbie.com/forum/standard-c-c/1208-binary-i-o-file-reading-0x1a-trouble.html
Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center